On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:08:15AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > > Does anybody else know if > > there is a way to reread the partion table an a running system? > > >From the man resize2fs page: > > "The resize2fs program will resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems. > It > can be used to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on > device. If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the > size of the mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line > resizing. (As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line > resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 only.)." > > > I haven't tried yet but looks like it might.
In general, changing mounted filesystem is tricky. If I were you, I boot system with some good live CD. Then play on partition. If that live CD has gparted on X environment, this kind of change is easy. google with: gparted live cd http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php I think that all... If I were you, I will keep dos and ntfs since they are so small. They may be useful as the source of data for running application under virtual environment etc... Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
